Alexis Caswell Angell

Alexis Caswell Angell (1906)

Alexis Caswell Angell (born April 26, 1857 in Providence , Rhode Island , †  December 24, 1932 ) was an American lawyer . After his appeal by President William Howard Taft , he served as a federal judge in the federal district court for the eastern district of Michigan from 1911 until his resignation in 1912 .

Career

Alexis Angell's maternal grandfather was Alexis Caswell , who became President of Brown University in 1868 . His father James Burrill Angell later became US envoy to the Chinese Empire and the Ottoman Empire ; his younger brother James held the presidency of Yale University from 1921 to 1937 . After graduating from high school, Angell attended the University of Michigan , where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1878 . After completing a law degree in 1879, he received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Michigan Law School in 1880 . He then practiced as a lawyer in Detroit until 1911 . He also became a professor of law at the University of Michigan in 1893, where he remained until 1898. He was a member of the Republican Party , but never held a political office.

On February 25, 1911, Angell was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan by President Taft to succeed Henry Harrison Swan . After confirmation by the US Senate , which took place on March 2 of the same year, he was able to take office immediately. On June 1, 1912, he resigned as a federal judge and was replaced by Arthur J. Tuttle . Angell returned to his private legal practice in Detroit, which he operated until his death on December 24, 1932. He was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Ann Arbor . His son Robert , born in 1899, became a respected sociologist.

Web links

• Alexis Caswell Angell at The Political Graveyard

• Alexis Caswell Angell in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Alexis Caswell Angell in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges